ING Files Criminal Complaint
In Mexico Against State Judge

MEXICO CITY -- The local unit of Dutch insurer ING Groep NV has filed criminal charges against a Mexican judge who last month issued an order briefly freezing the company's assets in Mexico.

ING Comercial America's action is the latest skirmish in a two-year running battle between the giant insurance company and Grupo Fertinal, a financially distressed Mexican fertilizer company. In a statement, the ING unit said a Morelos state criminal judge, Jose Bernabe Garcia, had illegally frozen the company's funds and could be condemned...